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.WASHINGTON — (CNN) President Barack Obama took veiled shots at Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump while marking 150 years since the abolition of slavery.Obama said Wednesday that...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) The Senate cleared an overhaul of the controversial No Child Left Behind program in a bipartisan vote on Wednesday, sending the measure to President Barack Obama, who will sig...

JERUSALEM — (CNN) Donald Trump will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on December 28, according to an Israeli government official, who said that the meeting was scheduled two weeks ...

BEIJING — (CNN) The flood of Chinese imports purchased by Walmart shoppers has cost the U.S. economy about 400,000 jobs since 2001, according to a liberal think tank. The Economic Policy Institu...

CHICAGO — (CNN) Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday that officials, police and citizens of his city “need a painful and honest reckoning in what went wrong” surrounding the dea...

LOS ANGELES — (CNN) “Trumbo” led in numbers, and “Spotlight” held the spotlight, but some surprising picks — including “Straight Outta Compton,” Sarah S...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) The House overwhelmingly passed legislation on Tuesday (407 to 19) that would overhaul the federal visa waiver program and bar those from Iraq, Syria, Iran and the Sudan, or t...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Donald Trump has a growing lead among likely primary voters in New Hampshire, and both he and Marco Rubio have gained ground in the state since September, according to a new C...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Donald Trump is bringing back the “independent” talk. The Republican presidential front-runner has said he’d stick with the party, rather than launching an i...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) More than half of Ramadi — the Iraqi city whose sudden fall to ISIS raised questions about Baghdad’s ability to combat the terror group — is now back in Iraq...